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From: TimF	4/18/2005 12:20:24 AM
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Beware of beastly, bogus blogs The jaws that bite the claws that snatch By Nick Farrell: Friday 15 April 2005, 06:48 BLOG SITES are becoming a trap for the unwary. According to a report published by security filtering outfit Websense, one minute you might be reading about someone’s cat, and the next you could be downloading some particularly nasty virus. Websense warns that are more than 200 bogus blogs on the interweb, all armed with all kinds of malicious software to open back doors and grab you by the operating system. Not only that, Websense warns that baited blogs could get past traditional security measures that normally protect you from such maliciousness. However to put this into perspective, there are some eight million blogs out there and only 200 evil ones. The likelihood that one of the evil ones is going to attract your attention is pretty small. According to the BBC, Websense claims to have seen examples of some computer criminals creating a legitimate looking weblog, loading it with key logging software or viral code, and then sending out the address as spam. Thus the reader is socially engineered to pop in and have a look at the sites. Thus spake the Beeb, here. theinquirer.net

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